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Does the LGBT community need an 8 color flag?

“This eight-stripe flag is not a replacement for the six-stripe flag. It is a way to symbolise, to highlight, and to stand in solidarity with these other identities.” When the Executive Director of the Mayor’s Office for LGBT Affairs in…

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Four in five Vatican priests are gay, book claims.

Some of the most senior clerics in the Roman Catholic church who have vociferously attacked homosexuality are themselves gay, according to a book to be published next week. Eighty per cent of priests working at the Vatican are gay, although…

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The HRC is doing nothing…again. (Opinion)

The Human Rights Campaign must learn to actually do something other than issue press releases announcing its positions on various federal judicial nominations. The group needs to do what this community used to do: Take action. Or, at the very…

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Is it homophobic to speculate about a politician’s sexuality?

In 2004, LGBT activist and journalist Mike Rogers posted a story on his website—Blog ACTIVE—suggesting that Edward Schrock, a Republican congressman representing Virginia’s second district, solicited sex with other men through a phone service. For years, Schrock had advocated…

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Forbes: Destructive “No Promo Homo” laws still exist in 7 states.

Earlier this week, Kathy Hoffman, Arizona’s new Superintendent of Public Instruction, announced that that she believes it is time to repeal the state’s law that forbids teachers from portraying “homosexuality as a positive alternative lifestyle [or suggesting] that some methods…

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92 times the Trump admin has attacked the LGBT community.

In his State of the Union address, President Donald Trump managed to work in a paragraph that included an admirable goal: to end HIV transmission in the United States by 2030. Trump’s throwaway promise was met with scorn by LGBTQ activists…